When You Come Back to Me: Remembering Ruth Stone

Sunday, July 6 | 3:00 PM

Back Roads Readings was created to bring esteemed poets and writers, both local and regional, to read their work to people in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Readings are followed by a book signing and reception, and are held in HCA’s event tent or theater, weather dependent.

RUTH STONE is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Ordinary Words, which won the 1999 National Book Critics Book Award, and In the Next Galaxy (both from Copper Canyon) which won the 2002 National Book Award.  She was the recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award and the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Cerf Lifetime Achievement Award from the State of Vermont. Stone’s last book, What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 2007 until her death in November of 2011.  Vermont Poet Laureate, Bianca Stone, will be reading her Grandmother’s poems.